Cyrano, 1973

Who was in it32 named

Paul Berget
James Blendick
J Kenneth Campbell
Joel Craig
Anita Dangler
Geoff Garland
Michael Goodwin
Bob Heath
Patrick Hines
Anthony Inneo
Betty Leighton
Janet Mccall
Gale Mcneeley
Tom Nissen
Michael Nolan
Alexander Orfaly
James Richardson
Patricia Roos
Jill P Rose
Richard Schneider
George Spelvin
Mary Straten
Donovan Sylvest
Louis Turenne
Danny Villa
Mimi Wallace

Creative team

Director

Michael Kidd

Choreographer

Michael Kidd

Orchestrations

Philip J Lang 6

Tony Awards

0 wins from 2 nominations.

Recordings

1 recording of Cyrano exist, but none was released while this run was on. See Cyrano for all of them.

Around this production

Cyrano is a musical with a book and lyrics by Anthony Burgess and music by Michael J. Lewis. Based on Edmond Rostand's classic 1897 play of the same name, it focuses on a love triangle involving the large-nosed poetic Cyrano de Bergerac, his beautiful cousin Roxana, and his classically handsome but inarticulate friend Christian de Neuvillette who, unaware of Cyrano's unrequited passion for Roxana, imposes upon him to provide the romantic words he can use to woo her successfully in mid-17th century Paris. In the early 1960s, David Merrick had announced plans to produce a musical entitled Cyrano with a score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, but nothing came of the project. Burgess had tr…

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